116 MR. G. T BETHUNE-BAKER ON NEW [Feb. 18, 



Thaqmaina, gen. nov. 



Palpi : second segment long, haired, reaching above vertex ; 

 third segment moderately long, almost naked ; antennae short, 

 reaching only just beyond the middle of the costa. Eyes hairy. — 

 Neuration. Piimaries : vein 2 from about a third before the 

 lower angle, 3 from well before the angle, 4 from the angle, 

 5 from about the middle of the discocellulars, 6 and 7 from the 

 upper angle, the latter ending on the costa just in front of the 

 apex, 8 stalked with 7 near costa, 9 absent, 10 from the cell, 

 11 rising rapidly to 12 and lying along it nearly all its length, but 

 not anastomosing. Secondaries : 2 from well before the angle, 

 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from above the middle of the disco- 

 cellulars, 7 from just in front of the angle. 



Type, Thaumaina uranothaziina B,-B. 



Thaumaina uranothauma, sp. n. (Plate IX. figs. 8 c? , 9 $ •) 



S . Both wings blackish. Primaries with the basal two-thirds 

 brightish blue, the blue occupying the lower half of the cell only. 

 Secondaries with the under side white, showing through on the 

 costa and as a spot beyond the cell. Fringes tessellated white 

 and black. — Under side. Both wings white with ocellated spots. 

 Primaries with a black costal t_-shaped mark at the base, a black 

 dash at the centre of the costa, a subterminal irregular row of 

 brownish-grey spots encircled narrowly with blackish ; directly 

 oiitside this row is a strongly scalloped pale brownish-grey line. 

 Secondaries largely filled with confluent blackish spots, an irregular 

 smallish black patch at the base ; three spots across the middle of 

 the wing, the first and third with white pupils, the second at the 

 end of the cell more or less greyish ; two black ringed spots with 

 white pupils on the costa in front of the apex ; a subterminal 

 row of six black confluent spots rising on vein 6, the first four 

 slightly curved, the fifth and sixth shifted right inwards, not 

 entirely fractured, but coming just below the three spots across 

 the middle ; termen beyond these spots pale greyish brown, with 

 small white spots on the termen. 



$ . Like the male, but with the blue of the upper surface 

 replaced by white and with a small whitish costal patch before 

 the apex and a white spot below it. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hah. Angabunga River, British New Guinea. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



Cyaniris owgarra, sp. n. (Plate YIII. fig. 17.) 

 (S . Both wings pale slightly lustrous sky-blue. Primaries 

 with a trace of white in the angle of veins 3 and 4 ; termen 

 rather narrowly black, tapering slightly towards the tornus. 

 Secondaries with the costa grey to the cell and- vein 6 ; termen 

 very narrowly black. — Under side. Both wings greyish white with 

 pale liver-brown markings. Primaries with cell closed by a 



